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...The Magnificent Seven...1960...
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UncleEd
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I'll jump right in:
Oh, the horror of it! OK, the Model 92 was probably period correct (being late 19th Century or early 20th) but all of them with the nearly same model. And the 1873 sixguns--surely variety should have existed, even with some double action revolvers being thrown in.
Now, the clothing! Oh, good grief, all obviously mid 20th Century stuff. And gad, look at all those buscadero holster rigs. Just wouldn't be, couldn't happen.
Now as to the saddles and other gear, again all mid 20th Century.
Doesn't Hollywood ever care? Well, doesn't it?
OK, now back to memories of a really classic Western which all can enjoy......maybe.
Oh, the horror of it! OK, the Model 92 was probably period correct (being late 19th Century or early 20th) but all of them with the nearly same model. And the 1873 sixguns--surely variety should have existed, even with some double action revolvers being thrown in.
Now, the clothing! Oh, good grief, all obviously mid 20th Century stuff. And gad, look at all those buscadero holster rigs. Just wouldn't be, couldn't happen.
Now as to the saddles and other gear, again all mid 20th Century.
Doesn't Hollywood ever care? Well, doesn't it?
OK, now back to memories of a really classic Western which all can enjoy......maybe.
Texas Star
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I did enjoy that film. Thanks for the pics.
steveno
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James Coburn with the knife and the stagecoach ride to the cemetery were the best parts of the movie
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Everything was period correct ........ for 1960....... I saw it on Bonanza!!!!!
you do realize there were no soundtracks playing background music in the "old west"
..... get over it
you do realize there were no soundtracks playing background music in the "old west"
..... get over it
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Mickey D
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I enjoyed it in the theater as it was made.
Didn't care and I'm sure Hollywood didn't either.
No 'Like's for you.
UncleEd
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Bam-Bam and Mickey D,
Good for you and all the sane people out there.
Good for you and all the sane people out there.
"If God had not wanted them to be sheared He would not have made them sheep."--Calvera--
Dutch: "Not so's you'd know it, Mr. Bishop. We ain't nothin' like him! We don't HANG nobody! I hope, someday, these people here kick him, and the rest of that scum like him, right into their graves."
Angel:"We will. If it takes forever."
Dutch: "Not so's you'd know it, Mr. Bishop. We ain't nothin' like him! We don't HANG nobody! I hope, someday, these people here kick him, and the rest of that scum like him, right into their graves."
Angel:"We will. If it takes forever."
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Shorty 45 MK2
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One of my favorite westerns! Period correct or not!
Same here!
Although I hope the re make is good, but I'm not holding my breath...
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CATI1835
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One of my top three westerns, along with Rio Bravo and High Noon...
"...Seven" was filmed in Mexico, due to an industry strike in the U.S. Eli Wallach related fondly waking one morning and finding 40 vaqueros outside his lodging with a horse for him. These men, who played the bandits in the film, taught Wallach how to ride: he had never ridden a horse. Fascinating.
Mexican authorities imposed conditions on the filming, as explained in a featurette by the actor who played the young woman in the film. Mexican people were not to be portrayed in a demeaning manner. For example, the farmers had to appear in squeaky-clean clothing at all times: also not correct/realistic, as anyone with a green thumb knows.
The film appeared in theaters in 1960, and did not run on TV until 1963. This I know for a fact. The morning after, EVERYBODY in our high school had seen it and was talking about it. That's the kind of film it was.
The interviews with the film makers on the DVD are interesting, IMO. As one said, "Is it the best Western ever made? No. Is it the most fun? Yes."
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P.S. In 1994, for those who are interested, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra re-created the soundtrack music, almost lost to history. That was one CD I rushed to buy.
Mexican authorities imposed conditions on the filming, as explained in a featurette by the actor who played the young woman in the film. Mexican people were not to be portrayed in a demeaning manner. For example, the farmers had to appear in squeaky-clean clothing at all times: also not correct/realistic, as anyone with a green thumb knows.
The film appeared in theaters in 1960, and did not run on TV until 1963. This I know for a fact. The morning after, EVERYBODY in our high school had seen it and was talking about it. That's the kind of film it was.
The interviews with the film makers on the DVD are interesting, IMO. As one said, "Is it the best Western ever made? No. Is it the most fun? Yes."
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P.S. In 1994, for those who are interested, the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra re-created the soundtrack music, almost lost to history. That was one CD I rushed to buy.
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Note that Yul wears very nearly the exact same outfit as a gunslinger robot in Westworld that he wore in TMS. And he still looked good in it. Must have been an homage (if not a send-up). Too close to be coincidental. Very fun movies both.
...and he did a magnificent (no pun intended, ya think?) job impersonating a robot in that later flick.
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I liked it...
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[Britt has just shot a fleeing bandit off his horse... at a great distance]
Chico: "Ah, that was the greatest shot I've ever seen."
Britt: "The worst! I was aiming at the horse."
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[Britt has just shot a fleeing bandit off his horse... at a great distance]
Chico: "Ah, that was the greatest shot I've ever seen."
Britt: "The worst! I was aiming at the horse."
I have this on my dvr so I can have real entertainment when ever I want; and in HD! Yeah, the guns and clothes aren't always "correct", but it is still very entertaining. Another I have captured on the dvr is Silverado.
finesse_r
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I wondered why we never saw the Chinese laundry in any of the scenes, with all those snow white spotless peon outfits there had to be a laundry somewhere close by.
The Magnificent Seven is not one of my favorite movies. I am not a fan of Yul Brynner and I find him and Robert Vaughn silly and unbelievable in most of their roles.
James Coburn, Steve McQueen, and Charles Bronson pretty much carry the movie, but each of them made several movies I like a lot more than this one. Bronson and Coburn in "Hard Times" is a truly great movie. Bronson in "Death Hunt" is a great movie. Coburn in "Water Hole # 3" is a funny movie. Steve McQueen made too many good ones to list them but a few are Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, The Getaway, Papillon, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, and The Hunter.
The Japanese prequel to the movie was not that great either, but pretty good for a Japanese movie.
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